Money & Markets – Week of 08.18.13

By Catherine Austin Fitts Whoever who has spent the last year making sure that a US-EU trade agreement never happens is certainly bucking for a

By Robert Lenzner Focus hard on this shocking Wall Street reality: The top six bank holding companies earned an aggregate of $51 billion in pretax

By Lori Montgomery President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social

By Joe Mysak The search is on for the next $800,000-a-year city manager. The taxpayers of Bell, California, a 2.5-square-mile city just outside Los Angeles